Company Announcements In September, Agilent and the Agilent Technologies Foundation gave Professor Gerhard Wanger at Harvard Medical School an Agilent Thought Leader Award totaling $373,000 over three years in support of his work using high-magnetic field NMR to analyze large proteins. The award will help him develop fast and efficient assignment methods for large proteins […]
Company Announcements In July, DNASTAR began direct sales, marketing and technical support in Europe. 5AM Solutions opened an office in Boston, Massachusetts, this summer. In August, PREMIER Biosoft acquired Redasoft, which provides the Visual Cloning sequence analysis software. Aridhia Informatics and Glencoe Software formed a strategic partnership in September to create software for life science […]
The 84th annual Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conferences, more commonly known as WEFTEC, was held in Los Angeles, California, on October 15–19. Attendance declined 4.7% to 16,691 from last year’s show, which was held in New Orleans, Louisiana. The number of exhibiting companies also declined, falling 6.2% to 923. The exhibition was […]
China’s R&D expenditure continued to rise in 2010, reaching CNY 706.26 billion ($111.1 billion), a 21.7% increase from 2009. Basic research spending totaled CNY 32.45 billion, an increase of 20.1%. Applied research, which the Chinese government defines as “creative research aiming at obtaining new knowledge on a specific objective or target,” grew 22.3% to CNY […]
UK R&D spending has not kept up with the rate of global R&D spending, despite increasing by about one-third in real terms from 1991 to 2009. In 2008, the UK’s share of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) was 4%, down slightly more than a percentage point from […]
The EPA has announced it will set standards for wastewater discharges resulting from coalbed methane extraction and shale gas extraction and issue a proposed rule for each in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Shale gas extraction has grown to comprise nearly 15% of US natural gas production. Wastewater from such extractions cannot be directly discharged into […]
Earlier this month, India’s government announced changes regarding takeovers of Indian pharmaceutical companies by international firms to protect against internationals controlling the sector. Brownfield proposals, which are the proposed pharmaceutical company acquisitions by foreign firms, will be monitored for six months by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board. The Competition Commission of India will establish regulations […]
Among the 1,000 global public companies that invested the most in R&D in fiscal 2010, R&D spending reached $550 billion. The amount is a 9.3% increase from fiscal 2009 and a 5.6% increase from fiscal 2008. Revenues for the top 1,000 companies grew 15% in FY10. The fastest growth rate in R&D spending belonged to […]
Critics of the FBI’s planned upgrade to its Codis system, which generates the individual genetic profiles stored in a national DNA database, shared their doubts at the Promega 22nd International Symposium on Human Identification earlier this month. The FBI has decided to increase the number of genetic markers, known as core loci, Codis uses to […]
Ithaca, NY 10/26/11; Research Triangle Park, NC 10/26/11—Advion, a provider of LC and MS products, has announced the sale of its Biosciences business to Quintiles Transnational for an undisclosed amount. Advion Biosciences provides bioanalytical services. Advion CEO and President David Patteson and Dr. Jack Henion, company chief scientific officer, chairman and cofounder, will remain with […]
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